real, it s hard to watch, today s case is worth seeing. so, tonight, we re highlighting the evidence presented by two house impeachment managers, stacey plaskett and eric swalwell. the new footage they laid out shows just how close lawmakers came to rioters who were out to get them. perhaps to kill them. vice president mike pence came extremely close. if the senate is going to convict mr. trump, it will do so partly on this new evidence released today. in this hour, we ll get out of the way and get you up to speed with extended cuts of the evidence. we begin with congresswoman stacey plaskett explaining how one capitol hill police officer saved a lot of lives. in this security footage, you can see officer goodman running to respond to the initial breach. officer goodman passes senator mitt romney and directs him to turn around in order to get to safety. on the first floor, just beneath them, the mob had already started to search for the senate chamber. officer goodman made
interesting body language we see, of course. senator bill cassidy, the republican of louisiana, who, of course, was one of the six republicans last evening who voted that this is, indeed, constitutional. he has been pacing the back of the chamber. certainly a different reaction from other republican senators like josh hawley of missouri who, of course, was one of those republican senators who questioned the electoral college vote. he has been sitting up in the gallery, away from his colleagues, at one point with his feet on the chairs in front of him. rand paul, at one point, was not looking at the video screen when they were playing some of these remarks. republicans, some of them are less engaged. of course, that speaks to what really is a sense here of how many are going to vote. jake, one thing that is dramatically different from the first impeachment trial one year ago, the almost utter silence in terms of defending president trump. one year ago we saw a war room putting
hello, i m laura trevelyan in washington. christian fraser is in london. we re about four hours into day one of the prosecution of donald j trump. day two. it s been an afternoon of text book legal strategy laying argument upon argument, fact upon fact, example upon example. house managers aim to prove without a doubt that the former president should be convicted of inciting an insurrection. but as we ve said before, it s notjust a legal matter. there are politics at play. it s not a traditionaljury of one s peers, but a group of 100 democratically elected senators who will decide the outcome. and while the democrats have clearly come out with a strong presentation, it s only day one. and it s not even over yet. anthony zurcher is in washington. hejoins us now. i was he joins us now. i was struck by how house managers have gone all the way back tojuly of house managers have gone all the way back to july of last year to point out that back then, donald trump was refusing
the genie was out of the bottle. house managers will make the case this this was really an insurrection created by the president of the united states. that is why they are still pushing to have him convicted and even entertaining running from office again. the legal read right now with jonathan turley, the george washington constitutional law professor, the fox news contributor. john yu, the berkeley law professor. welcome to both of you. jonathan, to you first. i don t know if any minds are being changed or we re getting closer to the 17 republicans that would have to be swayed to go ahead and make a conviction stick. but at this stage, how do you think it s going? it s going as we expected. your observation is the correct one. quit frankly, the strategy i see more of an effort to enrage than to convict. the problem with the house brief and now their arguments is that they re focused on how world were interpreted, now how they were intended. what is interesting is the hous
of transition, we need to make sure that nothing is lost in the handoff. we ve encountered roadblocks from the political leadership at the department of defense and the office of management and budget. right now we just aren t getting all the information that we need or the ongoing, outgoing from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. it s nothing short in my view of irresponsibility. trump s continuing refusal to acknowledge reality and do what every president has done before him and coordinate the transfer of power is just one of the many ways he s been acting as the chaos agent in chief. just yesterday trump finally backed down and signed the very same covid relief bill he threatened to veto for days. what looks like an attempt to save face, trump said in a statement he ll send a, quote, red line version of the bill back to congress, which is not a thing. and he also said that congress will, quote, focus strongly on his baseless voter fraud claims